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Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL?

From Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com>
Newsgroups misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.os.linux, comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL?
Date 2016-09-23 16:08 +0000
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
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On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 06:24:56 -0700 (PDT), Mark W. wrote:

> This site will expand the URL and show a snippet of text from the
> destination page:
> 
> http://mopages.com/texis/browserinfo/longurl.html

Nice find!

That site not only expands teh URL redirect, but it also gives, as you
said, a text-only verson of the web page (which, we can presume, is "safe"
to read). 

That's almost perfect for figuring out *what* the suspect web page
ostensibly purports to do.

Thanks,

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How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 01:22 +0000
  Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2016-09-23 01:25 +0000
  Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-22 21:39 -0400
    Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 03:32 +0000
  Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 01:48 +0000
  Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-23 02:21 +0000
    Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 03:29 +0000
  Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-22 19:38 -0700
    Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-22 19:58 -0700
    Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 03:19 +0000
      Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-09-22 23:27 -0400
        Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 03:47 +0000
      Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-22 20:46 -0700
      Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@gmail.com> - 2016-09-23 04:05 +0000
        Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 11:45 +0000
          Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@gmail.com> - 2016-09-23 13:11 +0000
            Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 16:08 +0000
          Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-24 01:35 -0400
            Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-24 15:34 +0000
              Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-24 18:19 -0400
      Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-23 00:42 -0400
        Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 11:44 +0000
      Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2016-09-23 06:56 +0200
        Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-22 22:38 -0700
          Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 12:34 +0000
            Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-23 10:05 -0700
  Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-23 13:32 +1000
    Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-23 00:48 -0400
      Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 12:33 +0000
        Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 05:07 +1000
          Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 22:38 +0000
            Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 15:56 +1000
    Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 12:33 +0000
      Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 05:24 +1000
  Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-23 00:34 -0400
    Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 12:42 +0000
  Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-23 08:26 +0200
    Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 12:33 +0000
      Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-09-23 14:39 -0400
  Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2016-09-23 10:07 +0100
    Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 12:33 +0000
    Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 12:36 +0000
  Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 16:08 +0000
  Re: How to check validity of suspicious looking SMS message text URL? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2016-09-23 17:03 +0000

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